For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
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Tutor: Helen Calcutt
What lives and breathes in the spaces between moment and moment; what possibilities arise from these bridges of quiet?
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Tutor: Isabelle Baafi
Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more.
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Tutor: Matt Bryden
Write through loss, in all its forms, to find what you've gained on the other side of grief.
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Tutor: Jacqueline Saphra
Explore Lee Miller's trailblazing photographs at Tate Britain as inspiration for new poems.
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Tutor: Meryl Pugh
Monthly Zoom seminars, with MA Core Tutor Meryl Pugh, for those looking to develop the skills necessary for postgraduate poetic study.
£215.00 *
Tutor: Louisa Adjoa Parker
Explore the joy and resilience of pastoral writing from Global Majority poets.
The Poetry School’s teaching year runs over three ‘terms’ – Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each term we offer around 40-50 courses and workshops that cater to a variety of levels, varying in length and subject matter. The course programme changes every term with more new courses, workshops and tutors, but often includes courses that run over three terms and popular repeats.
We offer both ‘classroom’ teaching (UK) and ‘virtual’ teaching (international). You can visit our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages for more detailed information about course structures, process and what to expect.
Most of our courses and workshops accommodate writers with a wide range of experience, but some are specifically designed for beginners or more practicised poets.
Here are our definitions:
Our programme is developed around these three teaching levels, although we also offer many courses that are Open to all – courses aimed at all levels, often focusing on a specific theme or inspirational subject matter.
‘Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm’ – OED
‘Poetry is a heightened imagistic use of language that does things to the heart and head’ – Grace Nichols
‘A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language’ – Edward Hirsch
‘Poetry is memorable speech’ – W H Auden
‘Poetry does not explain life. It gives life to feeling and seeing’ – Sarah Stetie
‘Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not’ – Samuel Johnson